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Peak District  prints

11/16/2023

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These are my Peak District prints so far - I will set up a folder on the website Sheffield and thr Peak District
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Sheffield print workshop

7/20/2023

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For family reasons we are setting up a Sheffield base. 
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A wee print workshop in the back of the garage -
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Went for a walk along Ladybower reservoir and back along Derwent edge in the Peak District.
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Made a plate from a photo  not my preferred way of working but the weather was no condusive to sitting and sketching.
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The print
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Dunbar harbour kittewakes

11/18/2022

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This plate has been lying around needing printing - so off I went to Edinburgh Printmakers to do the deed.
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The downside was - 11 tiny drypoint plates to ink up and not loose on the floor - no sneezing allowed
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The inks - I apply the ink with toothbrushes and clean off with rags - I rolled over the cliffs with a small roller and red ink
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I do editions of 10 - usually with around 3 to 4 trial prints - over 150 inkings of wee kittewakes!
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The final print - I coloured in the boats afterwards - the print will be for sale in the pop up gallery on Saturday 
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Pop up Gallery

11/14/2022

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It's that time of year again! Curry Leaf 39 Bruntsfield Place have welcomed me back!
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We are supporting the Chittagong Orphan school again.
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It's nice to see my work hanging on the wall again. If you are in Edinburgh come and see me - Saturday and Sunday 10-4.00pm until Christmas
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Rescuing a failure

9/28/2022

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Not happy with this print. The original watercolour had an empty sky - but it did not translate well to a collagraph and it is simply - too green. Green is a bit of a problem in Scotland in the summer, everything is soooo green.
I have been on a monotype course - where we printed on dry paper - so I decided to return to the plate - roll over with grey and wipe off a bit. Very happy with the result - have a sky, toned down the green and picked up more details in the trees and mountains 
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The Three Sisters

9/28/2022

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Yesterday's collagraph print
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Bruntsfield Links

9/26/2022

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I have been asked if I could make a print of Bruntsfield Links or the Meadows - so today I sketched Bruntsfield Links. It remains to be seen if I can make it into a reasonable plate - watch this space.
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Monotype course at Edinburgh printmakers.

9/26/2022

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Spent this weekend on a monotype course with the wonderful Kittie Jones. This is my best image - just three colours - red, yellow and blue. From a sketch of Loch Morlich.
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This is the ghost print - you run the plate through again before cleaning it.
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This was my first print - just black ink - from a sketch of Loch Carron in some weather. I just rolled black ink all over the plate (perspex) and wiped off appropriately
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This was my first colour print - blue yellow black - colours rolled tooo heavily - good learning experience.
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This is my last print - took just over an hour and it shows - monotypes take time - they cannot be rushed - I could add to it but I can never get back the white. Great weekend - learnt a lot - Thanks Kittie.
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Loch Lubhair another collagraph monoprint

9/26/2022

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Continuing my experimentation with collagraph monoprints. The land is collagraph - tiling cement, carborandum, cutting and tearing. The sky and loch are thickly covered in acrylic glossy medium - which I then rolled with blue, wiped and then rolled the whole plate with a sort of pale naples yellow (viscosity inking) the blue was very oily and the yellow not. I really like doing water like this - but need some practice with clouds each print is different and some of my clouds are a bit wild - these are restrained.
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Corran Ferry - collagraph monoprint

9/21/2022

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Last weeks print at Edinburgh Printmakers. I am working on combining collagraph and monoprint echniques.

​ The land, houses etc. are all made by my standard collagraph techniques -  tiling cement, cutting, tearing carborandum, acrylic medium. The sky and loch on the plate was just acrylic medium so that I could wipe them completely clean. Then I used monoprinting techniques of rolling and wiping to add ink to the plate - printed in a oner on Mega - a new press at printmakers with a conveniently low bench next to it - the roller I used was seriously large and heavy. This means each plate is actually unique - hence the v.e. (variable edition)

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  • Home
  • Blog
  • My fine art prints
    • Scottish landscapes
    • Scottish Islands
    • Highlands of Scotland
    • The Scottish coast
    • Edinburgh
    • Birds, butterflies etc.
    • Cornwall
    • Mountaineering/ski-touring
    • Knotwork, Standing stones
    • Trees
    • Protest art
    • Artist’s books
    • Sheffield and the Peak District
    • Geology
  • How I make my art
  • Buy
  • Framing
  • Contact